How to Use Windows 10's "Quick Assist" to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend's PC

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Reuse or Move a Bookmark in Microsoft Word Automatically Close (or Hide) Idle Applications on Your Mac with Quitter How to Use Windows 10’s “Quick Assist” to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend’s PC Why Your New Hard Drive Isn’t Showing Up in Windows (and How to Fix It) How to Properly Maintain Your Home's Attic How to Use Android Nougat's New Notification Controls How to Add Dropbox (or Other Cloud Services) to the Send To Menu in Windows What Is “Host Process for Windows Tasks”, and Why Are So Many Running on My PC? How to Take a Screenshot on Linux How to Turn a Windows PC Into a Wireless Repeater Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Cybercide Cybercide is a slang term that refers to the complete deletion (obliteration) of an individual’s entire online presence (email accounts, social media profiles, photos, blog posts, directory entries, etc.). What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. How fair are your dice? Here's how to check if your critical failures are due to bad dice or just bad luck. [ArsTechnica] That Signal Wasn't Aliens — It Was Coming From Earth Excited about that announcement earlier this week regarding the strange signal discovered by Russian radio telescopes? Well don't get too excited yet. [Popular Science] Study: Mosquitoes Can Pass Zika to Their Offspring Thanks to this "vertical transmission" the virus may be able to survive the winter in Aedes aegypti's eggs. [The Atlantic] The hospital of the future will sound much different than it does today, and that's good for patient health Hospitals are unnecessarily loud. Researcher advocates and technology can, hopefully, change that. [Quartz] How to Reuse or Move a Bookmark in Microsoft Word Bookmarks in Word allow you to assign names to text and mark positions in your files so you can more easily navigate long documents. Think of bookmarks in Word like bookmarks you put in books to mark your place. Read This Article → Automatically Close (or Hide) Idle Applications on Your Mac with Quitter Be honest: you’re reading this instead of working, right? I’m thankful, because that’s how I make my living, but for your sake you should really try to focus. It’s too easy to quickly open Twitter or IM for “just one minute”, especially when they’re sitting open in the background. Quitter is a Mac app that can help. Read This Article → How to Use Windows 10’s “Quick Assist” to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend’s PC Windows 10’s Anniversary Update brings a new “Quick Assist” feature. Built into Windows 10, Quick Assist allows you to take remote control of another person’s computer so you can help them troubleshoot it. It works similarly to Remote Desktop, but is available on all editions of Windows 10. Read This Article → Why Your New Hard Drive Isn’t Showing Up in Windows (and How to Fix It) You installed a new hard drive in your computer and, to your dismay, it’s nowhere to be found. Don’t panic, you just need to give Windows a little nudge to bring it online. Read This Article → How to Properly Maintain Your Home's Attic Getting a smart thermostat to control the heating and cooling in your house can potentially save you money depending on how you use it, but a thermostat isn’t going to save you money all by itself. Your home also needs good airflow and insulation, and the attic is the biggest piece of the puzzle. Read This Article → How to Use Android Nougat's New Notification Controls Android 7.0 Nougat made some pretty big improvements to notifications, but there’s one feature that’s gone unsung. Now, you can easily manipulate an app's ability to generate notifications directly from the notification shade. Read This Article → How to Add Dropbox (or Other Cloud Services) to the Send To Menu in Windows If you use Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud Drive to share and back up files, you can add them to the Send To context menu in Windows for quicker file moving. Read This Article → What Is “Host Process for Windows Tasks”, and Why Are So Many Running on My PC? If you spend any time poking around through your Task Manager window, you’ve probably seen a process named “Host Process for Windows Tasks.” In fact, you’ve likely seen multiple instances of this task running at the same time. If you’ve ever wondered what it was and why there are sometimes so many, we've got the answer for you. Read This Article → How to Take a Screenshot on Linux Linux is a powerful and diverse operating system, so naturally the screenshot tools for the platform are just as powerful and diverse. The wide variety of these screeenshot tools range from simple and easy-to-use to powerful command-line tools that offer the ability to script and automate the process. Read This Article → How to Turn a Windows PC Into a Wireless Repeater A repeater sits within range of your Wi-Fi network and “repeats” it, extending your Wi-Fi coverage farther than your router could alone. If your Wi-Fi only covers one half of your house, a repeater placed in the middle of your home can extend your Wi-Fi to the rest of the building. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Bible (FREE eBook!) A $32.99 Value Windows 10 Bible is one of the most thorough references on the market with complete coverage of Windows 10. Whether you're a beginner seeking guidance or a power-user looking for fresh tips and tricks, this book contains everything you could ever hope to know about the Windows operating system. Click here to download